From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Mar 18 9: 7:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E9437B4A6 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:07:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id 79BE59B19; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:06:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:06:43 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Bradley T Hughes Cc: Will Andrews , freebsd-xfree86@lists.csociety.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: XFree86 4.2.0 going back in the tree Message-ID: <20020318170643.GM53073@squall.waterspout.com> Mail-Followup-To: Bradley T Hughes , Will Andrews , freebsd-xfree86@lists.csociety.org, ports@FreeBSD.org References: <20020315150609.GV53073@squall.waterspout.com> <200203180922.35707.bhughes@trolltech.com> <20020318155956.GD53073@squall.waterspout.com> <200203181800.01715.bhughes@trolltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200203181800.01715.bhughes@trolltech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 06:00:01PM +0100, Bradley T Hughes wrote: > Threads have been enabled for libGL since XFree86 4.0 if I recall > correctly. I know you used a workaround in the qt2 port to get it to link > with libGL correctly. It's very annoying, but can be fixed with one > simple #define. I know when it was enabled. I did a workaround. But this does not answer my question: WHY? > As far as BIC issues, The only thing that it really changes is libGL no > longer uses pthread functions for storing thread specific data. So if somebody upgrades XFree86-4-libraries without upgrading their apps, their apps won't break? -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message